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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:32:11
Message-Id: fd25ffb6-e805-68e9-fc5c-b6793a55a44e@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd by Arve Barsnes
1 On 12/05/19 08:17, Arve Barsnes wrote:
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3 > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
4 >> Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd:
5 >>
6 >> modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo
7 >>
8 >> Can anyone explain how to run qemu-nbd on gentoo?
9 >> On ubuntu, one would do this:
10 >>
11 >> sudo modprobe nbd
12 >> qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 drive.vdi
13 > You can only modprobe kernel modules, so you need to have nbd compiled
14 > as a module to your kernel to make this work.
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16 "to [my] kernel" ... why doesn't the ebuild do that?  That shouldn't
17 require rebuilding the kernel or touching /boot
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23 > You could also compile it directly into your kernel, then you could
24 > skip directly to step 2.
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26 > Regards,
27 > Arve
28 >